Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

A STRONG flow of natural gas has been
struck at Genre Gordo, Piatt county, ILL.,,
at depth of Ito feet.
FoRTY-N1NE head Of cattle, suffering
from pleuro- pneumonia, were killed on
farm near New Brunswick, N. J..
TYPHOID FEVER is still quite prevalent
in Indiana and the malady appears to be
spreading.
HENRY EDGERToN, one of the best
known lawyers on the Pacific coast, was
found dead in his Office at San Francisco
Friday. It is supposed he died of apo
plexy.
LINeG, che of the condemned Chicago
anarchists, committed suicide in his cell
on Thursday morning by means Of a full
minating cap.
PANIC is reported in the New York
cotton market. The price advancing
rapidly. "Bear" failures are anticipated.
The protracted drouth in Southern
Illinois and Indiana, attended by dried
up streams and wells, exhausted cisterns
and forest fires, has at last been broken
by copiOus rains.
The strikes in the mines in the Spring
field Gll.) district is at an end. All the
men nave decided to work at the rates Of
fered By the operators, 6212 cents per
ton.
A GENERAL strike of the MASTERS not
connected with breweris was inaugurated
at Milwaukee Tuesday. The men want
$50 month, an increase of SIS over the
present pay. There will be a fight of
some length.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has reduced its rate 20 per cent. for
sending ten-word messages. Ten-word
messages between New York and Chicago,
heretofore charged SO cents, will here
after be charged 40 cents.
THE stockholders of the Third Nation
al Bank, of st. Paul, voted Friday to go
into liquidation, and after Monday
next the business of the bank
will be transacted at the Merchants Ma
tional Bank.
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY No. 3, 115, K. of L.,
the Oldest assembly in New Albany, Ind,
has gone out of existence. It had at one
time a membership of 800, but this num-
Der was reduced to 20. There was no
dissenting voice to the proposed disso-
luton.
The -four production at Minneapolis
last week reached 155, 300 barrels, against
157, 100 the previous week. Sales have
dropped off, but millers anticipate high
er prices. The wheat receipts for the
week aggregated 1 ,004 $50 bushels, the
largest on record.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada in October aggregated SO,
766, 1926, being $4,23O,175 less than for the
corresponding month year ago. The
total fire losses in the ten months of the
present year amount to $102, $685. 1926, be-
ing over $37, 100000 more than during
the corresponding period last year.
at crossing in Allegheny City, Pa,
Thursday night, a freight train dashed
against the rear end of street car,
which was filled with passengers. The
car was partly wrecked, and John M.
Culp and young woman named Harriet
form, were knocked off and ground to
pieces under the wheels of the engine.
Other passengers were not injured.
In the cases of the convicted Doodle
County Commissioners and exCommis-
sioners of Cook county, Ill. Judge Jamie
sun has over-ruled the motion for an ar
rest of judgment, and sentence the six
men for two years Ia the State peniten-
tiary each. The prisoners will now ap-
peal their case to the appellate court, re-
naming in Jail until that tribunal shall
pronounce its decision.